2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Comparative studies in Japanese and Korean with respect to functional categories and (micro-)parameter settings
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23520476
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Nanzan University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TAKANO Yuji 金城学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (40286604)
SUGISAKI Koji 三重大学, 人文学部, 教授 (60362331)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 日韓対照 / 機能範疇 / パラメター / 統語論 / 形態論 / 複合動詞 / 移動 / 項削除 |
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| Research Abstract |
As the result of our studies, the following points have been made. First, morpho-syntactically, a wider range of functional categories are available in Japanese. More concretely, Japanese, unlike Korean, is so parametrized that Higher Applicative (higher than VoiceP) and Lower Aspect (lower than VP) are available. Consequently, indirect passives on intransitive verbs, the auxiliary use of the verb of receiving, and "lexical" compound verbs whose V2 is aspectual are possible only in Japanese. Secondly, although both Japanese and Korean allow pseudo-clefts, the nominative restriction can be lifted by multiple foci in Japanese, but not in Korean. This strongly suggests that this constraint applies in syntax in the former but in PF in the latter. Finally, both Japanese- and Korean-speaking children, like their adult counterparts, know the distinction between case markers and postpositions and the availability of argument ellipsis at the earliest stage of their language acquisition.
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